Reform UK candidate who claimed the Holocaust was a hoax has won a seat in the local elections
Jay Leslie Cooper won one of three available seats in the ward with 705 votes and will now sit as a councillor
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Jay Leslie Cooper won one of three available seats in the ward with 705 votes and will now sit as a councillor
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